THANK YOU. all I wanted was to see the US compare itself to a country that wasn't a wreck, as it's citizens are so inclined to do. Your ranting makes it seem like an unreasonable request.
and get over yourself. I know america, I know americans. First-hand. Frankly, you're completely ignorant about what makes most of the world hate the US. Even before all this war business, the US was NOT on the list of most loved countries out there, especially in places where american tourists visit. You know what? You can complain and argue all you want, your emmisaries are ignorant rednecks who seem to go out of their way to prove that the american stereotype is 100% true. For christs sake, I won't even be believed if I sew my countries flag to my backpack anymore, because your fucking asshole countrymen started realizing that tourists from my country were treated better(because we're quiet, respectful, and generally better informed about the world -- don't argue, these are the facts whether you like them or not), and many now sew MY countries flag onto their bags, to get away from the image they've created for THEMSELVES. So you know what? Keep preaching about this so-called propoganda and shit that you think has destroyed your world image, and go to your protests against the Calgary seal hunt, and don't forget to ask whether the pumps at the gas stations in Australia are in American funds, because whining about how bad you've got it while ruining your countries reputation, and using canadian flags to try to escape that same reputation while acting the same way to inadvertently attack another countries world reputation is the AMERICAN WAY, so by all means, go ahead, but stop bitching that the would reputation of americans isn't your fault. The truth is, most foreigners have better things to do than obsess about whatever you think causes the international disregard for americans(before 9/11 is was "oh, they just hate us because they're jealous of our mighty country"), so they just have experience with loudmouth, ignorant, pushy, arrogant americans as their experience with americans.
Imagine that, people forming an opinion based on experience...tell me, should we disregard that too?
What I can't figure out is how Americans think that handguns and hunting rifles will be able to defeat the US military. Seriously, the Iraqi military was better equipped than that, and look where they are today. It's just the illusion of security and power.
"The US is unsafe!!!" they say, and how do you respond? "We're safer than rwanda! We're even safer than communist china or the former soviet union! We're *EVEN* safer than post-war Iraq! We r0xx0rz!!!!!111one"
If you're going to compare, compare at least to a country that isn't in the middle of a warzone or in the midst of anarchy and social turmoil, eh? You *ARE* part of the first world, you know!
To teh court system, MS is a great source of bribes.
Gotta love capitalism. It works as well in theory as communism does in fact. Luckily, it works a lot better in fact that it does in theory, but it can still be awfully silly sometimes.:)
You know, there are "Open Source" games out there that aren't nessessarily from the OSS community. Most of them don't even have version numbers! Imagine that! They are completed, played until the developers can't feel their legs so there are no major/obvious bugs, then released!
you should learn to play nice with others and work in a team. aparently the team model is a superior one then the lone wolf one. I am realizing this in my engineering studies.
You sound like an engineering student all right. For the future, real engineers actually analyze problems and give workable solutions. Managers give catchphrases like "you should learn to play nice with others" without apparantly any knowlege of the situation beyond a couple paragraphs of type.
OK smart guy, do the entire indie development community around the world a favour and break this little conundrum: How do you get together a team of dedicated independants who are willing to work hard on a project for years on end? If you can figure this out, please let us know, because I've seen thousands of projects fall by the wayside not due to some internal dispute, but because most independants have lives, and simply can't afford to dedicate that kind of resources to a project for the periods of time needed to finish a production run. Most who do are newbies who will spend a couple hours working on this project before quitting, a week at most. People with experience work alone or with people who they happen to know in real life, or they fail. It's a simple fact of life, one which I've experienced myself in a couple projects I joined with in the past. Eventually all of them folded, because nobody could keep working while critical team members took months off the project to deal with real life matters.
Sure, sometimes a team manages to keep together, as the recent release of "Diver Down", a great indie RPG, shows. The problem is that it often has far less to do with team management and more to do with the fact that people have real lives to deal with, and simply put, shit happens.
The best advantage of the lone wolf model for indie developers is that a single dedicated person can make the game of his dreams, and keep on making it while teams fumble around and lose members like mad. Take me. I've been working on my lifes work, a great RPG, for three years. In that time, the entire community of developers I tend to hang out in has been completely transformed several times, great sites have risen and fallen, great projects have come and gone never to be heard from again, but I'm still chipping away at this, dedicating every waking moment to dreaming up refinements to my original designs, preparing to code great enhancements, or actually going into the engine and adding things. I guarantee you that the odds of me finding another developer as dedicated as myself to this particular project are about the same as me digging up a UFO in my back yard. I'm sure the parent is the same way. Take a look at how long abaddon has been in development. No team will keep working that long. Only a man with a vision can, and so he does. Regardless however, many indie games done with this model achieve steady progress throughout their development, slowly but surely, as a single person fights to complete it through force of sheer will.
Sir, I salute you. I'm an indie as well, and it's the single most thankless, grueling job I've ever had. Considering that I work in Customer Service, that's saying something.
Good luck......and thanks, on behalf of every bastard who feels that you owe them a perfect video game because they downloaded the demo off your site.:)
I remember they said the same thing before, but for every successful exploit done by hackers intentionally and maliciously, there are ten thousand self-spreading viruses that hack machines every day.
I love how these studies forget that little fact.:P
Speaking of which, I love how whenever you see silicon based organisms in literature, they're always talking rocks. Just imagine if some silicon based intelligence was thinking about the possibility of carbon-based life forms! "We think they'll turn out to be black or clear, and either extremely hard like diamond, or flammable, like coal!"
Heh. The whole world as you see it (High school, I presume) is just a bunch of nerds in denial. Social nerds, sports nerds, angsty goth nerds, music nerds, just a bunch of pathetic losers who think that their little niche is just terribly important.
I'll tell you what though. When the parent stops making typical bullshit demands of a person who knows just enough to sound knowlegeable, but not enough to form an informed opinion, I'll stop making fun of him, then I'll go talk to that sports nerd you think is so tough.
Umm.....Do you know anything at all about RISC vs. CISC? Or how modern processors operate?
I'm sorry I have to be so blunt, but you don't seem to know any of the trade-offs to a RISC style platforms, nor do you know that modern processors are actually RISC/CISC hybrids of sorts which translate the legacy X86 code into a more easily executed kinds of code then execute the code as it's own language, achieving the processor side improvements of RISC, while maintaining the memory benefits of CISC...
I love it when companies lie out their asses for months until they can flip their strategy around. "Oh no, desktop users would never need 64 bit support! It's just not something a regular user ne-- CYKE! NOW HERE'S OUR LATEST AND GREATEST 64 BIT CHIP! PLEASE, NO CROWDING!"
Lucky break aside, 99% of people don't have their names on the internet.
Myself, I apparantly share my name with UHL hockey player(look at that, an MVP), a film star, a convicted child pornographer, a resort owner, a couple IT grads.......geez, I'm not sure if I hope my girlfreind searches google or not...
Are you sure? We ran ths simulation, and you look 10 years younger! It really does a good job of hiding your hips, and lifts and seperates your breasts!
Slashdot Mirror
...so he IS making a profit on someone else IP.
:)
Technically, so is nintendo... I can guarantee that they didn't invent emulation.
THANK YOU. all I wanted was to see the US compare itself to a country that wasn't a wreck, as it's citizens are so inclined to do. Your ranting makes it seem like an unreasonable request.
and get over yourself. I know america, I know americans. First-hand. Frankly, you're completely ignorant about what makes most of the world hate the US. Even before all this war business, the US was NOT on the list of most loved countries out there, especially in places where american tourists visit. You know what? You can complain and argue all you want, your emmisaries are ignorant rednecks who seem to go out of their way to prove that the american stereotype is 100% true. For christs sake, I won't even be believed if I sew my countries flag to my backpack anymore, because your fucking asshole countrymen started realizing that tourists from my country were treated better(because we're quiet, respectful, and generally better informed about the world -- don't argue, these are the facts whether you like them or not), and many now sew MY countries flag onto their bags, to get away from the image they've created for THEMSELVES. So you know what? Keep preaching about this so-called propoganda and shit that you think has destroyed your world image, and go to your protests against the Calgary seal hunt, and don't forget to ask whether the pumps at the gas stations in Australia are in American funds, because whining about how bad you've got it while ruining your countries reputation, and using canadian flags to try to escape that same reputation while acting the same way to inadvertently attack another countries world reputation is the AMERICAN WAY, so by all means, go ahead, but stop bitching that the would reputation of americans isn't your fault. The truth is, most foreigners have better things to do than obsess about whatever you think causes the international disregard for americans(before 9/11 is was "oh, they just hate us because they're jealous of our mighty country"), so they just have experience with loudmouth, ignorant, pushy, arrogant americans as their experience with americans.
Imagine that, people forming an opinion based on experience...tell me, should we disregard that too?
What I can't figure out is how Americans think that handguns and hunting rifles will be able to defeat the US military. Seriously, the Iraqi military was better equipped than that, and look where they are today. It's just the illusion of security and power.
You yankees have GOT to stop doing that!
"The US is unsafe!!!" they say, and how do you respond? "We're safer than rwanda! We're even safer than communist china or the former soviet union! We're *EVEN* safer than post-war Iraq! We r0xx0rz!!!!!111one"
If you're going to compare, compare at least to a country that isn't in the middle of a warzone or in the midst of anarchy and social turmoil, eh? You *ARE* part of the first world, you know!
Quebec is barely fit to represent quebec. Don't take anything over there too seriously. They're obviously insane. :P
And I bet there will STILL be people who will swear that they can run it on 64mb of ram! :)
To teh court system, MS is a great source of bribes.
:)
Gotta love capitalism. It works as well in theory as communism does in fact. Luckily, it works a lot better in fact that it does in theory, but it can still be awfully silly sometimes.
You know, there are "Open Source" games out there that aren't nessessarily from the OSS community. Most of them don't even have version numbers! Imagine that! They are completed, played until the developers can't feel their legs so there are no major/obvious bugs, then released!
you should learn to play nice with others and work in a team. aparently the team model is a superior one then the lone wolf one. I am realizing this in my engineering studies.
You sound like an engineering student all right. For the future, real engineers actually analyze problems and give workable solutions. Managers give catchphrases like "you should learn to play nice with others" without apparantly any knowlege of the situation beyond a couple paragraphs of type.
OK smart guy, do the entire indie development community around the world a favour and break this little conundrum: How do you get together a team of dedicated independants who are willing to work hard on a project for years on end? If you can figure this out, please let us know, because I've seen thousands of projects fall by the wayside not due to some internal dispute, but because most independants have lives, and simply can't afford to dedicate that kind of resources to a project for the periods of time needed to finish a production run. Most who do are newbies who will spend a couple hours working on this project before quitting, a week at most. People with experience work alone or with people who they happen to know in real life, or they fail. It's a simple fact of life, one which I've experienced myself in a couple projects I joined with in the past. Eventually all of them folded, because nobody could keep working while critical team members took months off the project to deal with real life matters.
Sure, sometimes a team manages to keep together, as the recent release of "Diver Down", a great indie RPG, shows. The problem is that it often has far less to do with team management and more to do with the fact that people have real lives to deal with, and simply put, shit happens.
The best advantage of the lone wolf model for indie developers is that a single dedicated person can make the game of his dreams, and keep on making it while teams fumble around and lose members like mad. Take me. I've been working on my lifes work, a great RPG, for three years. In that time, the entire community of developers I tend to hang out in has been completely transformed several times, great sites have risen and fallen, great projects have come and gone never to be heard from again, but I'm still chipping away at this, dedicating every waking moment to dreaming up refinements to my original designs, preparing to code great enhancements, or actually going into the engine and adding things. I guarantee you that the odds of me finding another developer as dedicated as myself to this particular project are about the same as me digging up a UFO in my back yard. I'm sure the parent is the same way. Take a look at how long abaddon has been in development. No team will keep working that long. Only a man with a vision can, and so he does. Regardless however, many indie games done with this model achieve steady progress throughout their development, slowly but surely, as a single person fights to complete it through force of sheer will.
It's a beautiful thing.
Sir, I salute you. I'm an indie as well, and it's the single most thankless, grueling job I've ever had. Considering that I work in Customer Service, that's saying something.
...and thanks, on behalf of every bastard who feels that you owe them a perfect video game because they downloaded the demo off your site. :)
Good luck...
Less to explain when you're found out. :)
Joe user isn't running an internet server. If he is, the OS is automatically exempt from being blamed for any damages. :)
I remember they said the same thing before, but for every successful exploit done by hackers intentionally and maliciously, there are ten thousand self-spreading viruses that hack machines every day.
:P
I love how these studies forget that little fact.
xp lite says...
Internet Explorer 10.1Mb, embedded still included
Outlook Express 4.2Mb + 300k stationaries
Windows Media Player 2.0Mb for 6.4
Well I'll be, you're right! 16Mb is a drop in the bucket compared to a 1Gb clean winXP install!
pclite.com I think the site is. It includes XPlite and 2kLite, which can remove all those unsightly microsoft applications from your computer.
I can imagine a race who is remarkably good at cleaning windows!
Don't get too close to 'em though, they reek!
Speaking of which, I love how whenever you see silicon based organisms in literature, they're always talking rocks. Just imagine if some silicon based intelligence was thinking about the possibility of carbon-based life forms! "We think they'll turn out to be black or clear, and either extremely hard like diamond, or flammable, like coal!"
So what you're saying is, Intel is completely full of shit?
(after all, for the latest applications, You need an Intel Pentium 4 with *insert useless jargon here* technology!)
Heh. The whole world as you see it (High school, I presume) is just a bunch of nerds in denial. Social nerds, sports nerds, angsty goth nerds, music nerds, just a bunch of pathetic losers who think that their little niche is just terribly important.
I'll tell you what though. When the parent stops making typical bullshit demands of a person who knows just enough to sound knowlegeable, but not enough to form an informed opinion, I'll stop making fun of him, then I'll go talk to that sports nerd you think is so tough.
This might be the case for other companies, but MS support isn't free for users. suprise!
Umm.....Do you know anything at all about RISC vs. CISC? Or how modern processors operate?
I'm sorry I have to be so blunt, but you don't seem to know any of the trade-offs to a RISC style platforms, nor do you know that modern processors are actually RISC/CISC hybrids of sorts which translate the legacy X86 code into a more easily executed kinds of code then execute the code as it's own language, achieving the processor side improvements of RISC, while maintaining the memory benefits of CISC...
I love it when companies lie out their asses for months until they can flip their strategy around.
"Oh no, desktop users would never need 64 bit support! It's just not something a regular user ne-- CYKE! NOW HERE'S OUR LATEST AND GREATEST 64 BIT CHIP! PLEASE, NO CROWDING!"
A link to a text file?
Lucky break aside, 99% of people don't have their names on the internet.
...geez, I'm not sure if I hope my girlfreind searches google or not...
Myself, I apparantly share my name with UHL hockey player(look at that, an MVP), a film star, a convicted child pornographer, a resort owner, a couple IT grads....
Are you sure? We ran ths simulation, and you look 10 years younger! It really does a good job of hiding your hips, and lifts and seperates your breasts!